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The Company
Complete Dependable Water to Wire Solutions Provider for Your Hydroelectric Projects from 200kW to 30MW
Since 1992 NORCAN has been a leading Canadian manufacturer of best-in-class, high-performance, competitively priced hydropower turbines and Water to Wire technology delivering Total Cost Ownership Advantage (TCOA) solutions to the hydropower plant owners. NORCAN continues a long Canadian tradition of Hydroelectric turbine manufacturer best quality technology that started in 1867.
Project Chaudière Québec Modernization +
Hydropower the Clean Energy of the Future since 1882
Modernization of the 106 years old Smooth Rock Falls hydropower plant +
The Goal
To support mitigating Climate Change with hydropower modern technologies
Hydroelectric power plants have a life cycle of several decades, typically 80 years or more. Several of them have well over 100 years of operation in North America. Over time, these hydropower plants went through various revitalization, upgrade, or modernization processes. NORCAN’s expertise with hydropower plant competencies has demonstrated over the years to design and manufacture their turbines with best in class state-of-the-art modern hydraulic geometries. By optimizing the hydroelectric equipment with modern technologies, NORCAN will increase the dependability and efficiency of your renewable energy hydropower plant. The immediate results are more power from the same structure, net flows, and net head, unlocking more kWh of sustainable, reliable annual green energy generation. In addition, modernization will maximize the revenues of any power station with competitive ROI on the capital investment cost while supporting building climate resilience step by step, one by one power station for a sustainable world.
Products
State of the Art Modern Technology with Best Efficiencies for more Power Output & Annual Energy Production
SOLUTIONS
Engineered Solutions with Modern Technology
Modernization
The hydropower brownfield projects are significant assets for their owners while providing proven sustainable resources mitigating climate change. They are critical elements for grid reliability, inertia, flexibility, and the fundamental pillar of governing the intermittency of wind and solar energy. They must remain on-line with dependable operations with increased annual energy production while providing the crucial renewable energy to build up climate resilience.
→ READ MOREPropeller to KAPLAN Conversion
The crucial benefit of the NORCAN propeller turbine to a new KAPLAN turbine conversion with modern hydraulic geometries is the short lead time from design to production, optimizing the planned downtime for the modernization to a strict minimum. In addition, the benefit of NORCAN conversion is significantly increasing the power output and subsequently the annual sustainable energy production with no civil work, with the same rated net head, rated flows, and superior dependability, maximizing revenue for the owner with a competitive cost of ownership advantage.
→ READ MORENORCAN Small Hydro Power Units PGS & PAT replacement
NORCAN Plug & Generate Solution (PGS) and PAT replacement (Pump As Turbine) is factory assembled as an integral one-piece unit with a direct drive between the turbine and PMG generator (Permanent Magnet Generator). The direct-drive removes the weak link in the hydro generating units, the gearbox, drastically increasing...
→ READ MOREBARBER Hydro Turbines
BARBER Hydro Turbines were very good turbines and equipment in the ’80s. After decades of operation, the 1600 plus installed BARBER Turbines have passed their prime design life cycle. NORCAN has already performed several repairs, modernization, or replacement on BARBER turbines.
→ READ MOREWater to Wire
NORCAN water to wires solution from a single source, ensures that all components and deliverables fit and work together as engineered for decades of dependable operations with preventive, predictive operations and maintenance.
→ READ MOREShop Assembly & FAT
Shop assembly for fit and finish, the most critical element to compliance, best-in-class quality made and assembled in Canada, on-time delivery during installation and commissioning. NORCAN is 100% fully committed to total customer satisfaction!
→ READ MOREInstallations & Commissioning
NORCAN installations team consists of actively experienced crews from NORCAN FTE’s (P.Eng & Red Seal Technicians) with the support of 11 tenured independent contractors (IC) who have worked with NORCAN for the last 20 years on most of their hydro projects.
→ READ MOREEngineering R&D Project Management
Highly Integrated Concurrent Engineering Holistic Approach
Engineering
NORCAN engineering and R&D provide a highly integrated and holistic approach to concurrent engineering, with skilled and experienced multidisciplinary professional engineers and drafting designers with cross-functional working teams.
→ READ MORER&D
NORCAN R&D in-house computational fluid dynamics CFD, FEA, and FMEA analysis. NORCAN engineers are now collaborating with a world leading turbine hydraulic fluid machinery dynamic laboratories located in Austria supporting NORCAN top modern hydraulic geometries based on homologous runners.
NORCAN R&D capability is coupled with optimization tools using integrated Artificial Intelligence (AI) to leverage machine learning in order to reach better solutions in less time than conventional optimizers while working with more degrees of freedom.
→ READ MOREProject Management
NORCAN project management is a flawless process that has an integrated multidisciplinary group approach with concurrent engineering forming the basis for best-in-class quality, with on-time delivery for total customer satisfaction.
→ READ MOREServices Inspection Repair & Spare Parts
One Stop Full Services & Repair by the Holistic System Integrator & Solutions Provider
News & Information
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Tell NORCAN about your project
Existing Project Inquiry Upgrade / Modernization • BARBER Turbines Project Inquiry • New Greenfield Project Inquiry .
Existing Project Services Inspection & Repair Inquiry • Spares Part or OEM Inquiry
Career
Join the Canadian leader in hydropower turbine design
Do you want to join the Canadian leader in hydropower turbine design, manufacturing, and renewable energy, best-in-class made in Canada? Do you want to be part of a great team while doing your part to battle climate change? Work minutes away from Ottawa, Canada capital, one of Canada’s most beautiful cities. We are looking for a dedicated team player and talented individuals to join NORCAN, an agile and dynamic company doing its part in mitigating climate change while building climate resilience for a sustainable world step by step!
Why Norcan?
The Voice of Customers, the 12 Points Factor
Choosing NORCAN means having an approved, and qualified partner for most IPP’s, Utilities, Quasi-Gov, and Municipalities in Canada and the United States. Several of these recurring customers are the most significant in North America. They choose NORCAN because they team up with a trusted partner that will go beyond their expectations for total customer satisfaction. The quality of a relationship may often take years to be recognized, NORCAN is and always will be there to serve you and your hydroelectric assets!